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Dr. Peter Breggin’s Empathic Therapy Conference 2012
One of the greatest things in the world is coming home. I come through the front door, crawl into my jammies, pour a big glass of my usual iced tea and sink into bed. The hotel where the Empathic Conference … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, disability, drugs, Inpatient psychiatry, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, physician, power wheelchairs, Powerlessness, Values
Tagged antidepressants, death, depression, diagnosis, Dick Gottlieb, doctors, drugs, Empathic Therapy Conference, maltreatment, Medicine, mental disorder, mental illness, NIMH, patients, Peter Breggin, pharmaceuticals, Physician, problem solving, Prozac, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatrically maltreated, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Seroquel, suicide, Surviving Psychiatry
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You Come First–Really (Part II)
What the hell does the Brownell Center for Behavioral Therapy think you want psychotherapy for? For all this stuff—the yelling and hitting and fucking and drunkenness and drugging! That’s what’s hurting you! And they are ripping through the most painful, … Continue reading
Posted in Depression, disability, Government Services, Health Care, Mental Illness & Health
Tagged Brownell Center, Dr. Robert Feldman, HIPAA, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, Onondaga County New York, patients, psychiatric disorders, Psychotherapy, Robert Feldman, Syracuse University
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Depression and Power
I have just received a comment that is so outrageous that I’m interrupting everything else to respond. The comment is: “Effective treatment of bipolar disorder is often based on the combination of several elements including the following: PHARMACOTHERAPY. The drugs … Continue reading
Posted in activism, American medical industry, Depression, Medicaid, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Pharmaceuticals, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged activist, antidepressants, Bipolar disorder, Change, Chemical imbalance, Depakote, depression, doctor, drugs, genetics, inpatient psychiatry, lithium, Medicaid transportation, Mood, Neurontin, NIMH, pharmacotherapy, power, powerlessness, Psychiatrist, psychologist, relationship, suicide, therapy
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The “Chemical Imbalance” Theory of Depression
I have bipolar depression, which is triggered by powerlessness, and I am kept powerless when I’m in the doctor’s waiting room. We all need—each and every one of us—a certain degree of power over our own lives. We have to have … Continue reading
Posted in activism, advocacy, American medical industry, Depression, Health Care, Medical care, Mental Illness & Health, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged anger, Antidepressant, antidepressants, bipolar, Chemical imbalance, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, doctor's waiting room, doctors, drugs, Health, health care, irritability, Major depressive disorder, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, National Institute for Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, Patient, patients, pharmaceuticals, Physician, power, problem solving, psychiatric disorders, Psychiatry
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Depression: What Your Psychiatrist Doesn’t Know or Won’t Tell You (part I)
Depression is anger born of powerlessness and turned inward by people with a certain genetic predisposition. Depression is not your fault but you can beat it. It is triggered by an interaction between your genes and your world—“depression via a … Continue reading
Posted in activism, Depression, Mental Illness & Health, Power, Powerlessness
Tagged alcoholism, anger, antidepressants, bipolar, Conditions and Diseases, depression, diagnosis, doctors, drugs, Gene, genetic, Health, Medicine, mental disorder, mental health, mental illness, Mood, National Institute of Mental Health, NIMH, NYS Office of Mental Health, power, powerlessness, psychiatric disorders, psychiatric peer support, Psychiatry, stress
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